Katrice L. Campbell of Oak Park was arrested the morning of Oct. 15 at her former home on the 900 block of North Humphrey Ave. in Oak Park, where she was charged with battery to a Hazelcrest woman and criminal trespass to a residence.

A bank robber tried to hit an Oak Park branch of U.S. Bank Friday morning, but the FBI said the man left empty-handed. The attempted robbery occurred at the 104 N. Oak Park Ave. branch of U.S. Bank around 10 a.m., according to FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates.

An Oak Park police car often parked on the 1000 block of Lexington Street in Oak Park got a beating overnight between Oct. 2 and Oct. 3. The car's side view mirrors were broken off, the roof was dented, the passenger side windshield wiper was bent, and the roof and trunk antennae were also bent.

The River Forest Police Department has nabbed a $29,000 grant from the state of Illinois, money that they'll use to pay their officers overtime to do extra DUI enforcements over the course of the next year.

A 25- to 35-year-old man reached behind the counter of an Oak Park camera shop the afternoon of Sept. 30, snatched a digital SLR camera and ran. The man allegedly took a Nikon D3000 camera from Holiday Camera, 1047 Lake St. in Oak Park.

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